AndroVM Jelly Bean release

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Dan

Hi,

after several weeks, I’m glad to release the first AndroVM images based on Jelly Bean.

This release is based on the following components :

AOSP 4.1.1_r4 branch
3.4 Linux kernel (android-goldfish-3.4 branch) – previous buildroid images were based on a 2.6.29 kernel

The port to 4.1 was not so easy because of some bugs in AOSP (I’ll get back on that later) and because the audio hardware API changed from ICS. Then, I’ve decided to abandon the previous audio library (which was limited to output) and ported the 4.1 Nexus 7 audio library to the VirtualBox environment. The very good side effect is that input audio now works Please tell me if it works correctly on your setup.

This release introduces a change in storage management : there is now one “system” VDI (virtual disk) and one “data” VDI – that’s a total of 3 VDIs with the sdcard one. This should make upgrade easier as it will be possible to change the system VDI while keeping all data.

OVA files can be found on the new Download page. You’ll find the 3 usual versions (tablet, phone, tablet with phone capabilities) as well as one “google apps” enabled version (based on tablet) and a “google apps” and “houdini” enabled version (also based on tablet) – it seems that the “houdini” libs extracted from the gingerbread intel/orange phone work also correcly on JB. I’m working actively on hardware OpenGL and will release support for it asap.

After releasing the OVAs, I realized that when you keep standard display parameters on the tablet versions (1024×600 with 160 dpi), you will get a “phone interface” (no status bar, notifications on the top of the screen, …). You have to upgrade to a higher resolution (1024×768 at least) to get the “tablet interface”.

Important point : I discourage the use of VirtualBox 4.2 for the moment, it seems many of us get very poor performance using buildroid/androVM images on this version. I’m investigating it…

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hengsin on October 3, 2012 at 3:00 am said:

Hi, what’s the version of virtualbox that this have been tested on ? I try it on virtualbox 4.1.18, Ubuntu 12.04, it start fine but sounds ( both input and output ) not working and I can’t run youtube and games.
- admin on October 3, 2012 at 6:22 am said:
  
  Hi I’m using the latest 4.1 vbox version on a mac os host for testing. What’s your host ? You can try to tweak the sound param of the vm.
  
  Dan.
  - videoorchard on October 23, 2012 at 11:48 am said:
    
    hi.i get an error unfortunately, google search has stopped?
- OmegaVesko on October 5, 2012 at 1:34 pm said:
  
  You’re probably not going to be able to run most games anyway, since they tend to be native apps.
oscarbg on October 3, 2012 at 3:56 am said:

Hi,
nice release..
some questions:
*there is plan similar to android-x86 for providing iso’s for installing on usb and using directly gpu opencl at least with amd gpus?
*do you think opengl support will take much effort or will take code from google gpu emulation so it can be soon. can we done say in a month?
Aaron on October 3, 2012 at 5:31 am said:

Awesome to see the release. I noticed you recommend against VirtualBox 4.2. Currently I use VMware Workstation 8, but noticed a few oddities importing the OVA. Is there a recommended version of VirtualBox which works best or perhaps a brief write up regarding settings to use in VMware?

Thanks again for all of your effort.
CrimsonKnight13 on October 3, 2012 at 6:00 am said:

Amazing work you’ve done with every release. I’ve been looking forward to your first AndroVM release & you definitely delivered.

I’ll be taking the gapps & houdini VM for a spin. I can definitely confirm that all of your OVAs work great when converted (with relaxed OVA standard conversion) to VMware Player 5 as a Workstation 9.0 VM.

Thanks for your hard work!
- videoorchard on October 24, 2012 at 5:03 am said:
  
  does google voice search work?
  - Dan on October 24, 2012 at 4:57 pm said:
    
    Hi
    Google Search is not working for the moment. It uses an ARM lib which is not supported by houdini even with 4.0 houdini libs. I’m looking for a solution.
    
    Dan.
emux on October 3, 2012 at 7:44 am said:

I can report running androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini in VirtualBox 4.2 under Windows 7 64bit with great performance.
Thanks again for your excellent work!
- admin on October 3, 2012 at 8:51 am said:
  
  Great can you please tell me if sound works (both output and input) ?
  - emux on October 3, 2012 at 9:30 am said:
    
    Sound output works well, but not sound input.
    I tested sound input with all “Audio Controller” options at VB Audio page. I tried with Voice Search app and some recording apps from market with no success. Is there another easy way to try voice input?
    When I try Voice Seatch I get the following in Eclipse LogCat:
    
    Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Couldn’t load google_endpointer_jni: findLibrary returned null
    at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java:365)
    at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:535)
    at com.google.android.voicesearch.greco3.Greco3Recognizer.maybeLoadSharedLibrary(Greco3Recognizer.java:43)
    at com.google.android.voicesearch.greco3.Greco3RecognitionEngine.startRecognition(Greco3RecognitionEngine.java:74)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
    at com.google.android.voicesearch.util.ThreadChanger$1$1.run(ThreadChanger.java:63)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:442)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:150)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:264)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1076)
volker on October 3, 2012 at 9:57 am said:

vbox86t with Google Apps and Houdini : androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini.ova:

very impressive, works well under virtualbox-4.1 on ubuntu host!

some small problems discovered so far::
adobe reader: can be installed, but does not work (tested with dropbox and google drive),

physical keyboard: cannot change to german keyboard (changed the settings, but nothing happens),

zdf mediathek: app can be installed, but does not work (complains “no internet connection”),

resolution (display parameters on the tablet versions (1024×600 with 160 dpi)): how to change / upgrade the resolution?

volker
- admin on October 3, 2012 at 11:05 am said:
  
  Hi
  Concerning resolution change don’t you have the AndroVM app for vm configuration ?
  - volker on October 3, 2012 at 12:06 pm said:
    
    AndroVM app for vm configuration:
    
    dan,
    thanks! Sorry for having forgotten this nice app! I suppose that I can add additional resolutions by adding in .vbox the line “ ” ….
    
    volker
Alex - Microsmeta on October 3, 2012 at 10:34 am said:

Hi Dan!
Just installing androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini.ova
on Virtualbox 4.1.22 on Windows7 32 bit HW Asus , Athlon64 X2 4400+ Nvidia Quadro FX 1400 128 mega, 3 GB RAM . If I will experience issues I will switch to Ubuntu 12.04 same hardware.

I will report you if it works fine. I also have a Nexus 7 16 GB to reproduce the issues

Alex
volker on October 3, 2012 at 10:59 am said:

vbox86t with Google Apps and Houdini : androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini.ova:

two more problems:
Settings -> Display: no option for “Never Sleeping”
Camera app: do not find the camera app?

volker
Alex - Microsmeta on October 3, 2012 at 12:38 pm said:

Hi Dan!
I’m writing from AndroidVM on Ubuntu 12.04!!!
On Windows 7 is really slow, here it is quite fast and stable. but i prefers so I-m forced to use Linux, too
So far I have activated Google Play and installed Nimbuzz, sounds work out-of-the-box.

Thank you for this new version can’t wait the open gl release
- hengsin on October 3, 2012 at 1:42 pm said:
  
  Hi Alex, sound doesn’t work for me on Ubuntu 12.04 using Virtualbox 4.1.18. What’s the version of virtualbox you are using ? Are you using PulseAudio and ICH97 for audio setting ?
volker on October 3, 2012 at 2:52 pm said:

vbox86t with Google Apps and Houdini : androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini.ova:
@hengsin: installed in VB-4.1-22 under ubuntu 12.04

angry birds:
to my surprise, angry birds works, including sound.
Does somebody know how to adjust the screen size of the game display?

volker
Alex - Microsmeta on October 3, 2012 at 5:43 pm said:

4.1.8. too, My motherboard is an Asus A8X for Amd Athlon64 X2 maybe is an hardware problem
daniel on October 3, 2012 at 8:46 pm said:

I’ve been trying every which way I know to get ‘google play music’ to run on *any* pc-running version of android, androvm included, but it force-closes on every single one. Any ideas?
Alex - Microsmeta on October 4, 2012 at 12:39 pm said:

Hi Dan!
Play Store doesn’t work anymore. I can browse and choose the apps to install, but then a msgbox alert me of errors like DF-BPA-13 or RPC:AEC:0
Any idea of how to fix it ?

Thx, Alex
- volker on October 4, 2012 at 1:56 pm said:
  
  alex,
  I had those problems several times, too. It is not a problem of the VM, but of the Play.
  Please, look for my workarounds which I posted some time ago in ex-Buildroid.
  
  volker
  - Eduardo Duarte on October 14, 2012 at 10:29 pm said:
    
    I’m having this troubles with my installation. Can you point me where are the solutions. I try to find it but I couldn’t… Thanks.
    
    BTW thanks for the great job.
    - volker on October 15, 2012 at 8:12 am said:
      
      @eduardo
      re – activation of the playstore:
      please find my suggestions for solution in my correspondence with alex in this blog.
      
      volker
      - Eduardo Duarte on October 15, 2012 at 9:43 pm said:
        
        Hello,
        
        Thanks for the help. Sorry for the repost! Now its working.
        
        Best regards
csszep on October 4, 2012 at 1:20 pm said:

I would to test the various Android built in VPN functions (eg l2tp+ipsec) with some gateways , but it seems the necessary kernel modules is missing.
Alex - Microsmeta on October 4, 2012 at 3:39 pm said:

@volker
Thank you, I have a backup of all comments and post of buildroid as a Google Reader feed, easy to search contents

Now I will test your workaround..

Other problem that you may encounter eventually with Play:
“Error Processing Purchase DF-BPA-09?
(with a fix that works well for me)

A common error occurs to Android users when they attempt to use Google Play to download apps that says “Error Processing Purchase DF-BPA-09?. The error usually doesn’t allow users to download anything and the problem will reoccur with every attempt.
The following steps usually fix this problem.
1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap Applications.
3. Select the All tab.
4. Locate and tap Google Services Framework (Google Dienste Framework).
5. Select the Clear data button.
6. Tap OK on the warning that appears.

Important: Restart the device, then try to use Google Play. You should now have no problem downloading apps.

Enjoy the playstore again!
volker
- volker on October 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm said:
  
  @alex
  I’m confident that it works for you too.
  Alternatively or in addition, you could clear the cache and the data in the Play app.
  
  volker
- Sharjeel on October 23, 2012 at 5:57 am said:
  
  Sorry, but how to reboot the Android, i am new to Android.
Alex - Microsmeta on October 4, 2012 at 4:15 pm said:

@volker This time don’t work. I have cleared data and then also removed updates, some days ago I installed Nimbuzz with no issues. It seems an autentication problem after automatic updates, maybe Dan could fix it
- volker on October 4, 2012 at 4:27 pm said:
  
  @alex
  did you clear data and cache in both apps, Play and Google Services Framework? And importantly, did you restart the VM prior to using Play?
  Good luck,
  volker
- volker on October 4, 2012 at 4:35 pm said:
  
  @alex
  Play problem: still another workaround:
  ==========================
  This thread is to provide the solution for Google play store download error – 921. The error message is ‘Error – Update for “xxxxx” could not be downloaded due to an error. (921)’ . If you see the same error, then follow the steps -
  1. Menu > Settings > „Accounts and sync“ > click on your google account (email) ? Einstellungen ? dann 2.
  2. click ‘Remove account’. Don’t worry, it’s not deleting your physical account. Account related information is still saved in Google.
  3. Launch Google Play Store again
  4. When asked, use existing account to create the google account.
  5. Provide your existing google account information (email & password)
  6. try again to download.
  =========================
  Not sure whether I tested that solution.
  Let me know how it works!
  
  volker
  - Alex-Microsmeta on October 5, 2012 at 4:06 pm said:
    
    Thank you Volker!
    
    Removing my gmail account, then adding it again solved the autentication issue.
    Just downloaded *Burger* from Google Play
    
    Clear cached and rebooting had no effect.
    
    Regards, Alex
  - Alex - Microsmeta on October 5, 2012 at 7:40 pm said:
    
    Thank you Volker!
    
    Resetting gmail account fixed the issue.
    
    Regards,
    Alex
    - volker on October 5, 2012 at 8:41 pm said:
      
      @alex
      glad to hear that!
      Me too, I have the problem that Google Search crashes permanently.
      
      volker
volker on October 4, 2012 at 4:22 pm said:

androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1. ….. gapps_houdini (2.10.2012)
versus
buildroid_vbox86t_4.0.4. ….. gapps_houdini (10.06.2012):

While the 4.0.4 .ova boots and runs as VM in VB on my dell D505 (Pentium-M) as linux host, the new 4.1.1 .ova does not finish to boot on the D505: it stops shortly before the text “Android” should appear, and then switches periodically between tow black screens of different size.
Any advice?

volker
Jose Benitez on October 4, 2012 at 6:16 pm said:

Firefox and Chrome didn’t work in androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini.ova
oscar on October 5, 2012 at 9:26 am said:

Please make AndroVM app compatible with Vmware to set resolution!
- Eric on October 22, 2012 at 8:33 pm said:
  
  I am experiencing the same problem. How dows one asjust the resolution in VMware Workstation 9?
  - Dan on October 24, 2012 at 4:57 pm said:
    
    Resolution change is not yet supported on VMWare – we’re working on it.
    
    Dan.
    - Dan Turley on November 7, 2012 at 3:11 pm said:
      
      Resolution adjustment for VMware would be greatly appreciated. It would like to try remote access using VNC, RDP has mouse problems (two pointers) and jerky with both Linux and Windows 7 clients. Thanks for the excellent work.
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Peter C on October 5, 2012 at 2:32 pm said:

I ran all three versions, don’t see any soft nav buttons…. are they supposed to be present or are there keyboard equivalents?
- Samuel on October 9, 2012 at 7:10 am said:
  
  Hi Peter,
  
  You can force soft navigation bar with the AndroVM app.
  This bar isn’t present on low-resolution phone by default !
JimmyKimble on October 5, 2012 at 7:12 pm said:

Excellent! Great work… pls pls pls keep it up

Many thanks!
Alex - Microsmeta on October 5, 2012 at 7:46 pm said:

Hi Dan!

Google search always crashes in my VM. I have disabled it. Facebook, Twitter, Nimbuzz, Dropbox ok, Angry Birds Space and Burger work but very slowly. Google Play must n not be updated or installing apps fails.

Alex
- Larry on October 8, 2012 at 4:42 pm said:
  
  After the update of Google Play you have to remove/reactivate your Google account.
deedee on October 5, 2012 at 10:58 pm said:

VirtualBox 4.1.22
Firefox and Chrome don’t work, Angry Birds works but very slow
- Larry on October 8, 2012 at 5:33 pm said:
  
  In Google Play I receive “Your device isn’t compatible with this version.” when trying to install Chrome and Firefox . VirtualBox 4.1.22.
Alex - Microsmeta on October 6, 2012 at 6:03 am said:

My new Italian AndroVM support page fror the project is here:
http://www.microsmeta.com/DBLOG/articolo.asp?articolo=1146

Alex
Günter Born on October 7, 2012 at 12:25 am said:

@Jose Benitez: Firefox and Chrome didn’t work in androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini.ova

Chrome didn’t work on all android x86 ports. I has something to do with Chrome app and is independant from AndroVM_vbox86-port. I’ve filed an issue (http://bit.ly/VKxVuj) at Chrome developers pages – but they told me, that they won’t support none certified android builds.

@Dan: BTW great work – thx. I’m using it on portable Virtualbox 4.1.18 on Win 7 as host (as Win 8 as well). Sound output works – I haven’t tested sound input.

I’ve blogged a bit about the project – will be online on Monday here (http://bit.ly/RIQ8XE – currently German only).
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Dale King on October 8, 2012 at 2:34 pm said:

One issue I have with it under VBox 4.2 on Mac (and had it with Buildroid) is that if the screen times out and it goes back to the slide to unlock screen it is unresponsive and does not respond to the mouse and I can’t “slide to unlock”
- admin on October 8, 2012 at 2:35 pm said:
  
  You have to press “F1″ to unlock the screen (“fn” key + F1 on Mac)
  
  Dan.
  - Dale King on October 8, 2012 at 10:57 pm said:
    
    That does the trick. Whether you have to use the fn key on the Mac depends on your keyboard settings, for me F1 key is enough.
Sergey on October 9, 2012 at 8:44 am said:

Hi! can you show the way how to root it? thank you
Dels on October 9, 2012 at 9:11 am said:

As you may notice, lately Xolo has release ICS-x86 software update for Xolo X900:
http://www.xolo.in/xolocare/xolo-x900-software-upgrade
Waiting someone to extract system image, grab flash player and houdini
- Dan on October 19, 2012 at 1:27 pm said:
  
  Thanks !
  I’m downloading it to see what changed.
  
  Dan.
Faaris on October 9, 2012 at 5:48 pm said:

Unable to get Google Messenger to function. I’m able to install any apps, review my Google e-mail. But Messenger will not show anything like active sessions as comparable to my phone.
cwk on October 10, 2012 at 3:23 am said:

HI there!
I really appreciate all your hard work to provide this. I need to connect the VM to Eclipse to test an App. I found under status where it gives an IP address but when i use this with adb ( adb connect 10.0.3.15) it won’t connect. How can i find out an address to connect with? On my first VM (which had loads of other problems) i could type ctrlF1 to get a terminal and type netcfg, but i can’t seem to make this work.
Thanks!
C.W.
- cwk on October 10, 2012 at 3:51 am said:
  
  oh yeah, i used the vbox86t version.
  - Samuel on October 12, 2012 at 8:55 am said:
    
    Hi cwk !
    
    To enable ADB connection, there are 3 steps.
    - First, setup the first network adapter to “Host-only”
    - Second, go to the AndroVM App and connect to the IP displayed (it must look like 192.168.56.10x)
    - Then, enjoy !
Alex - Microsmeta on October 11, 2012 at 5:48 pm said:

Hi Dan!

AndroVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini.ova

Works quite well on my Mac Mini Core 2 Duo (late 2010) with Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and Virtualbox 4.2.1 . Please write the Open GL 2.0 acceration script for Mac OSX , too
- Dan on October 11, 2012 at 9:28 pm said:
  
  Hi,
  OpenGL Hardware acceleration is now working on my mac
  I’ll try to release this asap.
  
  Dan.
Alex - Microsmeta on October 12, 2012 at 6:32 am said:

Wow!
Then I will record a new screencast to show all AndroVM JB functionalities

Alex
kjtempuser on October 12, 2012 at 8:30 am said:

Hi,
this is awesome, now i can debug my app on smooth emulator, thanks!
but i can’t find how to change screen orientation, is there any way to rotate the screen?
Alex - Microsmeta on October 12, 2012 at 12:27 pm said:

Yes

Rotate locker is free and works well with AndroVM
http://bit.ly/JmDxop
- kjtempuser on October 13, 2012 at 3:43 am said:
  
  i download it, it can rotate my screen ,but after this, the display messed…
Hieu on October 12, 2012 at 3:06 pm said:

Hello Dan,

Really impressive job !!!

I just tested it on Windows 7 Home, core i7-3610QM, 8GB RAM, GeForce GT 650M (2Gb), VIrtualbox 4.1.22

Basic use (use of settings, use of default browser) : worked quite smoothly.

Use of Play Store :
– Identification issue + [DF-BPA-13] error when trying to install apps: use the workaround pointed out by Volker and Alex (remove and add again the google account) => painful but worked fine. I installed Dolphin browser and Angry Bird Space.
– Many apps are not compatible : cannot install
– Dolphin browser : worked fine
– Angry Bird is very slow (looks like frame by frame animation).

I didn’ install the VIrtualbox Extension after importing your ova.

Tell me if you want me to perform more tests.
- Hieu on October 12, 2012 at 3:07 pm said:
  
  Oh, I forgot to mention that I use the Android_Tablet_Gapps_Houdini ova.
Ryo on October 13, 2012 at 6:55 pm said:

i installed the phone version on VMware player. it work great.
but i cant activate bluetooth . :/

how can i do so ?
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John Rose on October 15, 2012 at 9:28 am said:

I need to install VirtualBox uest Additions in order to use a folder on my Host Ubuntu OS. However, I do not seem able to do this as I’m required to add a CD which VirtualBox does not allow me to do for AndroVM. I’ve previously done this for my Windows XP guest OS which I installed from a MS DVD. Is this to with AndroVM being a ‘virtual appliance’? If not, how do I do this?
daniel on October 16, 2012 at 3:33 pm said:

using 4.1.1 houdini
“Google Play Music” – I installed the apk directly, as the play store said it was incompatible. I can run it fine if I have no google accounts set up, but once I set up a google account, Play Music FCs every time I open it. Any ideas? Do I need to specify something to make it run through houdini?
Josh Wood on October 16, 2012 at 7:35 pm said:

Why doesn’t it work with google voice search or chrome?
Levi on October 16, 2012 at 9:57 pm said:

Greetings. This is an awesome project. I just had one issue that was a little different than most people’s with the play store. When I attempt to install an app it actually cannot find the SD card to install it on and fails to install it after it downloads? Do you know if there is a work around for this? Thanks in advance!
justin on October 17, 2012 at 6:24 pm said:

Cannot get networking up as I could with Buildroid 4.04. Linux host (ubuntu 12.10 x64) / virtualbox 4.1.22 / dell xps m1330. Configured identically.

To be honest, the buildroid 4.04 is the only android vm that I’ve tried that had networking on this machine out of the box.
- justin on October 17, 2012 at 10:21 pm said:
  
  gotten networking working now, but installing apps gives an sdcard error
emux on October 19, 2012 at 3:17 pm said:

For those VirtualBox 4.2 users with problems:
VirtualBox 4.2.2 released and I see great perfomance with androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini under Windows 7 64bit.
- volker on October 19, 2012 at 7:49 pm said:
  
  @emux
  VirtualBox 4.2 users with problems:
  
  Unfortunately, I have still boot problems with the latest version of VB 4.2.2. This is on dell latitude D505 under ubuntu linux 10.04. Test was made with the android 4.0.4 VM from May 30, 2012 (which runs under VB 4.1.22).
  
  Should mention that my Lubuntu 12.04 VM boots and runs under the above – mentioned conditions in VB 4.2.2 (preformance similar as under VB 4.1.22).
  
  volker
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Absurdev on October 20, 2012 at 3:32 pm said:

Works pretty well with VirtualBox 4.2.2 on Windows 7 64bits. It’s a bit slower than ICS Android x86 but here I managed to get immediately network and adb connexion. So thank you for your work ! Merci bien
Dirk Bergstrom on October 20, 2012 at 7:55 pm said:

Thank you so much. AndroVM is going to save me all kinds of suffering. No more five minute boots, no more horrible lag. I run VirtualBox on a daily basis for work, so trying to do KVM based virtualization would be a royal pain. Great to have an emulator that works in VirtualBox.
Tord on October 20, 2012 at 8:32 pm said:

Do you know if these kernels are compiled with the CONFIG_SWAP=y option?
Swapon doesn’t complain but nothing happens.

shell@android:/ # busybox swapon /dev/block/sdc1
shell@android:/ # cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
shell@android:/ #

I tried 1G and 64M partitions and then a swap file, neither works.
I’m currently testing on buildroid_vbox86t_4.0.4_r1.1-NOSSE-20120526.ova
Future builds for old machines would be appreciated.
- volker on October 21, 2012 at 8:51 am said:
  
  @tord @dan
  indeed, as tord, I would also appreciate very much to have future builds for old machines. The present builds for 4.1 do not boot on my Pentium M machine. This is probably due (?) to the 3.4 kernel because the 4.0.4 builds worked well.
  
  Could you probably provide a future build for old machines with PAE disabled kernel?
  
  volker
  - Dan on October 21, 2012 at 9:36 am said:
    
    Yep I forgot to adjust kernel and build options to work on old systems. I’ll include it in next build to be released during the coming week.
    
    Dan.
    - volker on October 21, 2012 at 2:44 pm said:
      
      good news!!!
      volker
BiTeMeNoW on October 22, 2012 at 10:25 am said:

Hi, on a ACER Iconia Tab W500 with Windows 7 32bit very poor performance and I can not use directly the touch display to use Android. I have to use a mouse emulation but not good for touch-only devices. Androix-x86 works very fast on it in a dual boot
mike on October 22, 2012 at 3:16 pm said:

Awesome!! Reading all these posts is very humbling. It would be nice if I could offer specifics like some of the comments, yet I am unaware of the exact things to report.

I can simply offer my observation which is Dan’s work, while pioneering as his is the first release, has a tremendous amount of lag in comparison to the x86 4.0 RC2.

I’m on Win7, using VirtualBox 4.1.22, and tested both VMs with identical hardware power applied to each. Looking forward to future releases.

A humble suggestion:

Perhaps, you might consider hosting the files on sourceforge, codeplex, or google code and maintaining this blog as the projects official site.
Sharjeel on October 22, 2012 at 3:23 pm said:

i am running androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini.ova on VirtualBox 4.2.2, it was giving slow performance, and then stuck on Lock screen. after Reset from VirtualBox now it is not being started.

Any solution?
- volker on October 22, 2012 at 6:03 pm said:
  
  @sharjeel
  please, try VB version 4.1.22.
  For me, this works well for with VB under linux
  volker
  - Sharjeel on October 23, 2012 at 7:35 am said:
    
    Thanks that worked
Sharjeel on October 22, 2012 at 3:26 pm said:

How can i change the resolution… On my Hp dv6-6c70 15″ it is going out of screen
Keith on October 22, 2012 at 7:56 pm said:

Is there any way to load a custom .apk into the VM?
Will the google apps be available on the P phone version soon?
- Dan on October 24, 2012 at 5:01 pm said:
  
  1. Two solutions :
  a. Connect witv adb from your host and use ‘adb install xxx.apk’
  b. Send a mail to you with the apk, read your mail from the VM and install it from here
  
  2. Yes next release
  
  Dan.
Manish on October 23, 2012 at 10:58 am said:

Guys,there is a problem.i get an error msg saying “google search not supported”.how do i fix that?
Matt on October 24, 2012 at 12:56 pm said:

I have installed several of the recent versions and am enjoying this project greatly, thanks for all the hard work. I am wondering how to disable the custom USB settings that automount and take control of inserted USB devices differently than stock android. I would like to remove this code. Can you point me in the correct location? I need a stock USB insertion experience. Thanks!
Frank on October 26, 2012 at 5:07 am said:

On some of the apps I try to install from the play store I get this message: Cannot install on USB storage or SD card. The download completes fine, there is a slight delay then the message appears. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance
- Dan on October 26, 2012 at 7:39 am said:
  
  Hi,
  Which app is it ?
  
  Dan.
  - Frank on October 27, 2012 at 4:47 pm said:
    
    It is called rummyfight which is a purchased program. After sending this message I tried installing the free version. It installed fine but the purchased version will not. I also tried “my beach hd”, a purchased program. It produces the same error but the free version will install.
- Devzero on November 6, 2012 at 2:37 pm said:
  
  Hello,
  
  I have the exact same isse, I cant install paid Apps.
  Free Apps works.
Alex - Microsmeta on October 26, 2012 at 9:33 am said:

Hi Dan!
Any news about AndroVM accelerated on Mac OSX ?

I have some time to spend on a new demo screencast…

Alex
- Dan on October 26, 2012 at 3:50 pm said:
  
  Running here. Have to find some time to package it. I fly tonight, I hope to have enough time during flight.
  
  Dan.
  - Denzil Ferreira on October 29, 2012 at 8:08 am said:
    
    Hi Dan,
    
    When you package it, can you provide insight on how you got it to work? The reason being that I’m porting Android to a public display, using Virtualbox to virtualize the hardware (I’ve compiled my own kernel to include the display touchscreen and hardware) and the only thing missing is the acceleration part. The displays have a Mac Mini attached so technically, it should work.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Denzil
manish on October 26, 2012 at 4:19 pm said:

alex,does the google voice support work? IT fails in my case
Alex - Microsmeta on October 27, 2012 at 7:30 am said:

No, it doesn’t. But Dan is looking for a fix
Shreyas Nagare on October 29, 2012 at 7:48 pm said:

I’ve downloaded many games (SD + HD) and live wallpapers.
They don’t work on my VM.
It says “Unfortunately, xyz has stopped.”

Also, Google Search crashed very frequently.
Solutions? :-/
- Dan on October 31, 2012 at 9:54 am said:
  
  Unfortunately current version has a problem with ARM libraries, version to be released will correct it.
  
  Dan.
  - Shreyas Nagare on October 31, 2012 at 3:32 pm said:
    
    Thanks..
Jehuty on October 31, 2012 at 3:19 am said:

I downloaded and imported the androVM_vbox86p_4.1.1_r4-20121002.ova and androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps.ova appliances on VirtualBox 4.2.0 r80737 running on Win7 SP1 64-bit and I had no problems running those. Wireless connection is working smoothly. I tried to run Angry Birds on androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps.ova and it was quite sluggish. More power on this project!
- Dan on October 31, 2012 at 9:53 am said:
  
  Hi
  You’ll need the openGL hardware version to have good performance.
  I’m packaging it to be released asap.
  
  Dan.
Singh on October 31, 2012 at 5:42 am said:

Hi
I tried downloading a few applications from google play.
Some apps, for example, “Agent Dash” (by FULL FAT) said “Your deice isn’t compatible with this version”.
Is there some way to install and run these incompatible apps?
Shanaan Cameau on October 31, 2012 at 3:36 pm said:

How do u transform the .ova file into a .iso or .vmdk sorry i never worked with that kind of file before
- Dan on October 31, 2012 at 4:46 pm said:
  
  You have an ‘import’ command in VirtualBox and VMware.
  
  Dan.
  - Shanaan Cameau on October 31, 2012 at 7:08 pm said:
    
    thanks it work great
    but what happen to Ethernet patch
    and do you think i would work with Vmware Workstation 6
    - Shanaan Cameau on October 31, 2012 at 7:19 pm said:
      
      also my apologize but is there a way to transfer or access the host PC folder like with (Android Debug Bridge) please
ulisses on November 1, 2012 at 1:01 pm said:

does anybody succeed in use some firewall in our android vm? 4.0 or 4.1?

i have already installed the droidwall, honey badger and others, but nothing works, sometimes there a error because the greg commands are missed or the iptables isnt compatible, the app sugest i have to update the rom, how can we do this in virtualbox??
please helpme and remember that im not a developer, so take it easy.
thanks
Petan on November 1, 2012 at 8:30 pm said:

Hi,
I have problem with video memory. I set 256MB but all is slow and I got only 97 points (2D,3D) in benchmark (total score is 30 000). I tried it on WM VirtualBox 2.1, 2.2 on Windows 7 x64.
Can anybody help me??
(I’m sorry for my bad english)
- Dan on November 1, 2012 at 9:10 pm said:
  
  Hi
  That’s because you don’t yet have hardware OpenGL. I’m still packaging it abd hope to release it very soon…
  Btw which benchmark tool do you use ?
  
  Dan.
  - Petan on November 1, 2012 at 9:15 pm said:
    
    Ok, thank you I hope too:-)
    I use antutu benchmark.
Juan on November 2, 2012 at 4:57 am said:

Error processing purchase. [DF-BPA-13] when I want to download game app from play store
- ulisses on November 2, 2012 at 6:34 pm said:
  
  I saw this error when I downloaded the vm with holdini, try to download another one. this one: “vbox86t with Google Apps”
  works well for me.
  
  I just cant use a firewall yet.
- Louis on November 3, 2012 at 5:15 am said:
  
  1. Menu > Settings > „Accounts and sync“ > click on your google account (email).
  
  2. click ‘Remove account’. Don’t worry, it’s not deleting your physical account. Account related information is still saved in Google.
  
  3. Reboot your android
  
  4. Launch Google Play Store again
  
  5. When asked, use existing account to access the Google Play Store.
  
  6. Provide your existing google account information (email & password)
  
  7. try again to download.
Christian on November 2, 2012 at 3:49 pm said:

Thanks for the great work!

androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini works for me without problems on Virtualbox 4.2.4 on Windows XP 32 bit. Sound output works, I have not tested input.

How do I do a clean shutdown? “Shutdown via ACPI” menu entry brings me to the lock screen.
- volker on November 2, 2012 at 5:31 pm said:
  
  @christian
  @dan
  androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121002-gapps-houdini
  Virtualbox 4.2.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit:
  
  unfortunately, it does not run satisfactorily (compared to VB version 4.1.22) on a host under ubuntu.
  volker
Kieron Quinn on November 2, 2012 at 7:38 pm said:

Is there any chance you could provide your original iso/any disk image files you used to install it onto VB? So we could try and get it working on a physical disk?
Nagato Yuki on November 3, 2012 at 5:16 pm said:

Would there vbox86p (phone) version with Google Apps and Houdini? or could the vbox86t with Google Apps and Houdini set as the phone resolution (such as 480×800 or 720×1280)?
- Dan on November 3, 2012 at 5:18 pm said:
  
  vbox86p version to be released soon with gapps & houdini
  - Nagato Yuki on November 3, 2012 at 6:32 pm said:
    
    Could I modify the resolution by editing any configuration file or just fixed when building AndroVM?
  - Nagato Yuki on November 3, 2012 at 7:45 pm said:
    
    Well, just remark for me:
    /system/bin/bd-vbox-prop set vbox_graph_mode 800×480-16
    with using command line.
Said Tahsin Dane on November 5, 2012 at 9:54 am said:

What is the difference between x86T and x86TP and x86P??
- Samuel on November 5, 2012 at 1:21 pm said:
  
  Hi,
  
  The P version is a phone build
  The T version is a tablet build
  The TP version is a tablet-phone (Tablet with phone capabilities) build
  
  Just use the one that matches the most to your use-case !
Devzero on November 6, 2012 at 2:40 pm said:

Hello,

Thanks for the work, but I have the “Cannot install on USB storage or SD card” Issue on paid apps too. Free Apps are working. I already tried some “asec” workarounds but none works. On Android-x86 ICS the are working. Thanks for a fix in advance.
liny on November 7, 2012 at 2:42 pm said:

how do you setup the network ?

(how can you access console to
try via netcfg ethx ? )
Ozan on November 13, 2012 at 9:43 am said:

When I try to install a game (Legend of the Cryptids), it downloads the game, no problem, but then when the download is finished, gives an error saying “Can not install on storage or sd disk” and doesn’t install the game. I saw a few comments above. But unlike those, this one is a free app (free to download, then you pay for some in-game stuff if you want to). Any idea about what might be causing this?
- Sam on November 13, 2012 at 9:52 am said:
  
  Hi Ozan,
  
  Which version of the OVA are you using ?
  It works for me, using P version GAPPS + Houdini
  
  https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/androvm/rnC4KbrgkYQ
  
  Sam.
  - ozan on November 13, 2012 at 4:24 pm said:
    
    Hmm.. I might have used the previous version. Need to check it when I get back to home. Thanks for the reply.
    - ozan on November 13, 2012 at 4:49 pm said:
      
      Alright. Apparently I had installed the previous version. The problem is gone in the one you suggested. Game installed, but not working. I was not really expecting it to work, so that is ok. Maybe in the later versions.
elbrick on November 15, 2012 at 11:22 pm said:

gotta say cracking but of work, i was complaining about the slugishness but boosting the gpu ram to 128MB sorted that totally out,

its running the t with gapps happy on a win8/vmbox on amd phenom core and a 5780

needed a few apps to make it userfriendly like (quick shutdown and rotate locker) overall a cracking bit of work and great for troubleshooting (or proving the customer wrong) on android/exchange issues, Thanks again

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